Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:33:00 -0500 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: Porting vfork() |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote: > You could make it a special kind of killable - where you can _only_ > kill it (ie only fatal signals will be serviced), and that would work. > I wouldn't do that until people actually start to complain. It's not a > security issue, as the parent _can_ be killed - you just have to kill > the child first.
Somebody needs to think about: while(1){vfork();}
-- Raul
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